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    of necessity
    [ adv ]
    in such a manner as could not be otherwise
    <adv.all>
    it is necessarily sowe must needs by objective


    Necessity \Ne*ces"si*ty\, n.; pl. {Necessities}. [OE. necessite,
    F. n['e]cessit['e], L. necessitas, fr. necesse. See
    {Necessary}.]
    1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or
    absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

    2. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing
    need; indigence; want.

    Urge the necessity and state of times. --Shak.

    The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was
    in. --Clarendon.

    3. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite;
    something indispensable; -- often in the plural.

    These should be hours for necessities,
    Not for delights. --Shak.

    What was once to me
    Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown
    The vast necessity of heart and life. --Tennyson.

    4. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable;
    irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical
    or moral; fate; fatality.

    So spake the fiend, and with necessity,
    The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
    --Milton.

    5. (Metaph.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the
    subjection of all phenomena, whether material or
    spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

    {Of necessity}, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or
    irresistible power; perforce.

    Syn: See {Need}.

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